Lott reached out and gave the giant axe a gentle push, and the spinning weapon slowly came to a stop in front of his hand.
A red rose was also imprinted on the giant axe.
"What is this?" Nami looked at the axe in disbelief.
With the speed at which it had been flying toward Ryugu Palace, it clearly wasn't part of a performance. It carried killing intent.
It felt as though someone had thrown the axe toward Ryugu Palace from far away.
Yet at the sight of the axe, Fukaboshi and his two brothers frowned, their faces filled with anger.
They had been searching for Vander Decken, but he was as slippery as an eel, always slipping away just as they were about to find him.
They had even offered a bounty, but had never managed to capture him.
Vander Decken was like a snake lurking in the shadows, constantly watching Princess Shirahoshi.
Unlike Hody Jones, who also wanted to obtain Princess Shirahoshi, Hody Jones wanted to control the entire palace through her, then take control of Fish-Man Island.
Vander Decken coveted Shirahoshi's beauty and wanted to marry her.
At first, Vander Decken had been fairly polite, merely using the Mark-Mark Fruit to send Shirahoshi roses and love letters. But after Princess Shirahoshi rejected him several times, he grew somewhat deranged.
He had actually developed a twisted "if I can't have her, I'll destroy her" personality. To protect Shirahoshi, Neptune had shut her inside a Hard-Shell Tower.
Lott gently closed his hand toward the axe from a distance. Lightning rippled around the two-meter axe before it shattered into countless fragments that fell to the ground.
As a transmigrator, he naturally knew this was an axe Vander Decken had thrown at the mermaid princess using the Mark-Mark Fruit.
Through his